The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-12-15

| Green & Co. matter, and told him he
| Thought it was dishonest. Here again
| the court stopped the witness from de-
| failing conversation about the S285, 900
transaction with the Fidelity Bank; he
| had no knowledge whatever until told
| of it in Jail at Dayton. Hopkins had
| transactions through Hoyt with Ker-
shaw s. Co., and he was trying to hedge
| against our losses by Wiltshire.
Isl had loaned money to Hopkins,
said the witness, "and paid drafts for
him, but / used my own money, and
never took penny out of the banks
/ funds for this purpose. Hopkins went
| in $50, coo with another broker and
helped him. This was paid back and
the money went into the bank. There
was also some profit. This also was a
The witness was then examined as
to the assets of the Swift Iron q
Steel Works, the Riversdale Rolling
Mills, the firm of E. L. Harper & Co.,
and of himself.
He made the aggregate several mil
lion dollars, and said all the
transactions of these several firms and
companies with the Fidelity Bank
were legitimate.
His evil genius seemed to have come
to him at the very last. He was now
about to leave the stand. MIR. Black
burn again asked him if he had any
thing to do with Mr.. Hopkins wheat
deals through Broker HOyt.
He answered that ne paid Hopkins
draft but he did it to protect the bank.
Il was interested through Hopkins
to that extent. We wanted iirst to
protect the interests of the bank, and
after that was done if there was any
profit left, it was to be divided between
HOPKINS and mYSelf.H
a sensation ran through the court
room as these words were uttered.
Mr.. Blackburn, TO break the force of
the admission asked: Did you at any
time have any intent in all these trans
actions to defraud the bank or anybody
else?''
''None in the world,'' was the an
3wer.
Miss Matthews at this point was OBJ
served to be in tears.
The cross-examination was brief and
pointed. 1t brought out the single
fact that he purchased certificates of
deposit with his own checks, which
were not charged to his second ac-
count.
Two or three other witnesses, Mr..
Gahr, Mr.. Richards and Mr.. Wood
rough, were called mainly to tell about
Harper'S assets, but the governments
counsel dismissed most of them with
out cross-examination or by drawing
from them some damaging testi-
mony.
The only comfort obtained was in
the testimony of Mr.. Marchant
of the First National Bank, who show
ed that Harper had large deposits in
that bank in 1886 and in 1887.
The testimony is not quite closed
but certainly will be tomorrow.
The Ives Case
CHICAGO, Dec. 10.-Henry L. Ives
made somewhat mysterious visit to
Chicago yesterday, registering at the
hotel as Henry Ironton and his at
torney, Barrister Boone, registering
as H. S. Booming. BIr. Ives used the
greatest discretion in his attempts to
prevent his presence being known,
but finally admitted that the United
States court at Indianapolis had issued
an order restraining President McKeen
of the Terre Haute and Indianapolis
railroad company from disposing of the
stock of that company, which was held
collateral to secure the payment
of a note of 100000 given
by him. 1t will be alleged that the
him as trustee, and Mr.. Ives said that
he simply acted as trustee in that trans
action and therefore signed it in his
official capacity. He did not think
there would be any official trouble &C
cruing to himself, but he was sorry to
learn that McKeen had got himself in
to any difficulty on his account. He
hoped to secure an extension of time in
the pending litigation and if that was
granted he would make ever ything
straight. He denied that he had
stripped the treasury of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton g Dayton Rail-
road company of its available
cash last June, but asserted that he
had paid to the treasurer of the COM
pany over $500, 900 to meet the claims
against him. He claimed that the
directors could see that he was kept
harmless against any suits that might
be brought against him. He was not
afraid of any criminal prosecution and
defied any one to affix any culpable or
financial responsibility to him on ac-
count of his connection with the c. H.
& D. railroad. He said he was per-
fectly prepared to meet all his accusers,
but he might want a little more time in
order to collect his facts, summon his
witnesses and properly arrange his de-
Tense.